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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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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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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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