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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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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 nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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My trade and art is to live.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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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 my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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