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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
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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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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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