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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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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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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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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 a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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