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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
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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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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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God defend me from myself.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
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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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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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