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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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When we have got it, we want something else.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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