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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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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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I am myself the matter of my book.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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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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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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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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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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