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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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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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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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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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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 have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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