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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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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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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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