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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
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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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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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