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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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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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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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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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