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I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

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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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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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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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