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We cannot fail in following nature.
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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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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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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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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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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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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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