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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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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 perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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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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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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