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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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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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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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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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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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