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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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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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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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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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