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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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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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It needs courage to be afraid.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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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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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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