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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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Death pays all debts.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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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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