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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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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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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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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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