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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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