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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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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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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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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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