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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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