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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
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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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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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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