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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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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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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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