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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
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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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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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