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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Nothing
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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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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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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