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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

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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 greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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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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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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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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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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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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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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