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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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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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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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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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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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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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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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