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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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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I am myself the matter of my book.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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Death pays all debts.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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