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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
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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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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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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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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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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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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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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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