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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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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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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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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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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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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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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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