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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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