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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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