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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
Michel de Montaigne
Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
Michel de Montaigne
I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
Michel de Montaigne
What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
Michel de Montaigne
He loves little who loves by rule.
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