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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
Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Woman
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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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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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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My art and profession is to live.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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