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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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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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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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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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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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