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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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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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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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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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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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Death pays all debts.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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