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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.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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