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We have power over nothing except our will.
Michel de Montaigne
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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Nothing
Except
Power
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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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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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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I am myself the matter of my book.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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