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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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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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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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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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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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