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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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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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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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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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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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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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