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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
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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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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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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