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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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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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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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