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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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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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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 no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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