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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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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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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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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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