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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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My trade and art is to live.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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