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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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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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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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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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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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