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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.
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
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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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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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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