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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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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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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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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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