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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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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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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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