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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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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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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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