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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.
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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Unlawful
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Ceremony
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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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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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Death pays all debts.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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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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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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