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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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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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Habit is a second nature.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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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 a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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