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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
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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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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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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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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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