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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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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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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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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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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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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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