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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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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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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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Habit is a second nature.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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