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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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Woman
Women
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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