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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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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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