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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
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Perfection
Individuality
Absolutes
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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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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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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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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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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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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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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