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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.
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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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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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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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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My art and profession is to live.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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