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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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