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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
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Individuality
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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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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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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