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“Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?”

Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne was a French Renaissance philosopher, essayist, and writer. He is considered one of the most significant figures in the history of the essay. Montaigne's work, particularly his book 'Essays', has been influential in the development of modern prose. more

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“If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.”

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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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“The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.”

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Book:The Complete Essays of Montaigne

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“It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.”

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“This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.”

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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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“If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.”

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