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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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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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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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