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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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 advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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