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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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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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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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Death pays all debts.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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