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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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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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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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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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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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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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