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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
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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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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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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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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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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 faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
Michel de Montaigne
