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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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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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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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