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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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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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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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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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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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