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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
Michel de Montaigne
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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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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