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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Vigor
Communication
Friendship
Love
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Communications
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I do not teach. I relate.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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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 shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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