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My art and profession is to live.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
Michel de Montaigne
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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