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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
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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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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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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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Habit is a second nature.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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