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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
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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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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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