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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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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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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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Habit is a second nature.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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