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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.

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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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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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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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