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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
Autobiographer
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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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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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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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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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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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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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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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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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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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