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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
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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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Michel de Montaigne
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.
Michel de Montaigne
A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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