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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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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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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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