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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
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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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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