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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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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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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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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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