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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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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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.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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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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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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Death pays all debts.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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