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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

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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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Littles
Little
Everything
Nothing
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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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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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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