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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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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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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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