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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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