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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 establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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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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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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