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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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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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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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