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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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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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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Habit is a second nature.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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