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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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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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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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