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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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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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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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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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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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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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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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
Men are nothing until they are excited.
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