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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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Death pays all debts.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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