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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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget 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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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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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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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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