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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
Michel de Montaigne
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne
The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
Michel de Montaigne
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
Michel de Montaigne
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel de Montaigne
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
Michel de Montaigne
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
Michel de Montaigne
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
Michel de Montaigne
The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
Michel de Montaigne
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
Michel de Montaigne
Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
Michel de Montaigne
To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
Michel de Montaigne
Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
Michel de Montaigne
I am myself the matter of my book.
Michel de Montaigne
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
Michel de Montaigne
Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
Michel de Montaigne
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
Michel de Montaigne
Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
Michel de Montaigne
