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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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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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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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