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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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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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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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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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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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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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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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