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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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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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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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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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