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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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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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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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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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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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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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