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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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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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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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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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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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