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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
Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Violent
School
Mistress
Necessity
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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