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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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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
Michel de Montaigne
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
Michel de Montaigne
Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
Michel de Montaigne
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
Michel de Montaigne
We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
Michel de Montaigne
Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
Michel de Montaigne
Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
Michel de Montaigne
He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
Michel de Montaigne
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Michel de Montaigne
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
Michel de Montaigne
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
Michel de Montaigne
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
Michel de Montaigne
Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
Michel de Montaigne
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
Michel de Montaigne
I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
Michel de Montaigne
If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
Michel de Montaigne
We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
Michel de Montaigne
One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
Michel de Montaigne
Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
Michel de Montaigne
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Michel de Montaigne
