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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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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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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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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.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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