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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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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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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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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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