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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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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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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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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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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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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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