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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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