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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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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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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
Michel de Montaigne
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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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
Michel de Montaigne
Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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