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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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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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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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Habit is a second nature.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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