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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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