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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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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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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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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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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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