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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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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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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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