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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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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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My trade and art is to live.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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I am myself the matter of my book.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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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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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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