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Death pays all debts.
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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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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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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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
Michel de Montaigne
Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
Michel de Montaigne
Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
Michel de Montaigne
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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