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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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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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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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