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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.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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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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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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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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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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