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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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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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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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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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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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God defend me from myself.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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