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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
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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