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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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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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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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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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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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