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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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