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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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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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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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