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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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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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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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