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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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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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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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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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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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