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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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