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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance

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

– Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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

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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 greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

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

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

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

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Coffee with a friend a day keeps the blues away

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

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

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To philosophize is to doubt.

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