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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
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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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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