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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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Death pays all debts.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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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.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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 strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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