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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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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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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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