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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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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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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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