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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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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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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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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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