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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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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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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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