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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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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.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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