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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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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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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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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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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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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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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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