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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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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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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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