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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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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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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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