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Montaigne

French statesman, philosopher and essayist

Nationality: French

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Type: Philosopher

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Birth: 1533-1592

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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

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The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

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The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.

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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in 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 drow

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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

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I want death to find me planting my cabbage

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

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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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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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The thing I fear most is fear.

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

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Habit is second nature.

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

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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 sq

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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent li

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The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.

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We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

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My art and profession is to live.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

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I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so h

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

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There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

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I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.

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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

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Philosophy is doubt.

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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in f

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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.

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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

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One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an oppositio

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Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.

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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

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A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

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All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.

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