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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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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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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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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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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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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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