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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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 health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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