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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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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 thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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