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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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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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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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My trade and art is to live.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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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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