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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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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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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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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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