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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?
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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