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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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
Nothing
Thoroughly
French
Fashion
Littles
Little
Everything
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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God defend me from myself.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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