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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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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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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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