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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
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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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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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My art and profession is to live.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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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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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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