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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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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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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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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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