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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
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French Moralist
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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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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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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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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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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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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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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Death pays all debts.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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