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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
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Bits
Games
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Shapeless
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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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 are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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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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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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