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Michel de Montaigne
France
28 Feb 1533 // 13 Sep 1592
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On Silly:
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately
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On Ignorance:
Ignorance is the mother of all evils
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On Right:
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can
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On Fashion:
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be
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On Success:
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom
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On Man:
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condit
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On Animals:
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her
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On Conscience:
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void
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On Wisdom:
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom
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On Valor:
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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