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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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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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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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