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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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