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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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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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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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I am myself the matter of my book.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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