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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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Women
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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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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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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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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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