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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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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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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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