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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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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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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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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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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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