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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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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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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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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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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Every movement reveals us.
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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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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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