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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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