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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
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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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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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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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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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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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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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