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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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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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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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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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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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