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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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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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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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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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The most universal quality is diversity.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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