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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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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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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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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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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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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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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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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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God defend me from myself.
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