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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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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Necessity
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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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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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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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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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