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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
Michel de Montaigne
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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