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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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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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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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