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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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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.
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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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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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
Michel de Montaigne
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
Michel de Montaigne
How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
Michel de Montaigne
Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
Michel de Montaigne
Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
Michel de Montaigne
And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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