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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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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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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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