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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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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.
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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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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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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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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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