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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Fleeing
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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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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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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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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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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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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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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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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