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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
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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