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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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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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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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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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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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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