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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
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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My art and profession is to live.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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