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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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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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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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