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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
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Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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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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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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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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