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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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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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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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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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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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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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We have power over nothing except our will.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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