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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Believe
Believes
Whoever
Esteem
Charity
Belief
Another
Anything
Esteems
Work
Persuade
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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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.
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My art and profession is to live.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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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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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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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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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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