Michel Eyquem de Montaigne



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"Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying."

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"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."

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"Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions."

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"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."

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"Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society."

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"God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends."

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"He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear."

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"He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."

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"How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today."

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"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I."

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"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

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"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."

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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness."

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"Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen."

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"Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."

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"No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly."

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"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

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"Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them."

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"The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance."

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"The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself."

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"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

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"There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline."

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"There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity."

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"The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable."

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"To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death."

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"To philosophize is to doubt."

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"We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it."

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"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."

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