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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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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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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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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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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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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
Michel de Montaigne
Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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