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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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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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