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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Excited
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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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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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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