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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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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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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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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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