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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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