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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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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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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 common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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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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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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