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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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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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Habit is a second nature.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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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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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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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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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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