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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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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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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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