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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
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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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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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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