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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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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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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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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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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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We have power over nothing except our will.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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