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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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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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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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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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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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