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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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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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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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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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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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