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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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Desperate
Disease

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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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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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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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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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