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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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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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 value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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