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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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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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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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