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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.
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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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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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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