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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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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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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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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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My trade and art is to live.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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