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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
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 I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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My art and profession is to live.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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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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