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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.

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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
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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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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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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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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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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