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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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