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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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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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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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