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I do not teach. I relate.
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
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
Michel de Montaigne
The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
Michel de Montaigne
How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
Michel de Montaigne
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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