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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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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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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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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