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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.
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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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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My art and profession is to live.
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