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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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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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