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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by 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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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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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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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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