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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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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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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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