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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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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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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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