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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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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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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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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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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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