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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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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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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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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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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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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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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