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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
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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