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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
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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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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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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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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