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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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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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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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