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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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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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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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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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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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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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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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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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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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.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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