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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
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French Moralist
Jurist
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Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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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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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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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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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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