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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
Michel de Montaigne
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
Michel de Montaigne
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
Michel de Montaigne
And not to serve for a table-talk.
Michel de Montaigne
He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
Michel de Montaigne
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
Michel de Montaigne
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
Michel de Montaigne
A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
Michel de Montaigne
Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
Michel de Montaigne
He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
Michel de Montaigne
