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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
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Wisdom
Certain
Nothing
Thing
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Wise
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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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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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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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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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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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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