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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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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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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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