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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Beauty
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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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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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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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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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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