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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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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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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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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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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Every movement reveals us.
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