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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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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Power
Everything
Self
Oneself
Freedom
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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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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It needs courage to be afraid.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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My trade and art is to live.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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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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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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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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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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