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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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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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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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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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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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