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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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My art and profession is to live.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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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.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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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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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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