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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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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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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
Michel de Montaigne
If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
Michel de Montaigne
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
Michel de Montaigne
I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
Michel de Montaigne
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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