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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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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Suffering
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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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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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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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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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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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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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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