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My trade and art is to live.
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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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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