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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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Habit is a second nature.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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