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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
Michel de Montaigne
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
Michel de Montaigne
We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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