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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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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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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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