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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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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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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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