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God defend me from myself.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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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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