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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Wisdom
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Nothing
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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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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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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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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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