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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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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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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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 a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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