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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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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 plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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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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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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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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