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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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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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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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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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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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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 archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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