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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

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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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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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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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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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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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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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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