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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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