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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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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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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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