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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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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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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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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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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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