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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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God defend me from myself.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Death pays all debts.
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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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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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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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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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