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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
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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