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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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
Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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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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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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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 are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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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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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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