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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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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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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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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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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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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