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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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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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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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