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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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
Perfection
Individuality
Absolutes
Absolute
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Every movement reveals us.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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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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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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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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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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