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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Monster
Monsters
Miracle
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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