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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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