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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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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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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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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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