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Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
Michel de Montaigne
Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
Michel de Montaigne
Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
Michel de Montaigne
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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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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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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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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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
Michel de Montaigne
Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
Michel de Montaigne
A man may be humble through vainglory.
Michel de Montaigne
Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
Michel de Montaigne
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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