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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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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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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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