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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
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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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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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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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