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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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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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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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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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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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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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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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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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