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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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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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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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