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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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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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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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