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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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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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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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