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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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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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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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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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