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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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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.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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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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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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