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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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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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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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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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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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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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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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