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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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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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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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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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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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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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