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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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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Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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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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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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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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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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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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