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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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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 confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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