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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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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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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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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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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 strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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My trade and art is to live.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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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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