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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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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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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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