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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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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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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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