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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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More quotes by Michel de Montaigne
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
Michel de Montaigne
To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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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
For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
Michel de Montaigne
This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
Michel de Montaigne
How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
Michel de Montaigne
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
Michel de Montaigne
He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
Michel de Montaigne
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
Michel de Montaigne
I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
Michel de Montaigne
There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
Michel de Montaigne
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
Michel de Montaigne
