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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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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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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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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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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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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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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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