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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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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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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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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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