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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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
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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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