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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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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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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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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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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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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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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 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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