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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
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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