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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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My art and profession is to live.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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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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When we have got it, we want something else.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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