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By Michel de Montaigne
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

By Michel de Montaigne
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

By Michel de Montaigne
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

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I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.

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

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Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.

By Michel de Montaigne
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. Marriage

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. Marriage

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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Love

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The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.

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The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination ... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.

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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

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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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The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

By Michel de Montaigne
To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..

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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.

By Michel de Montaigne
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

By Michel de Montaigne
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Education

By Michel de Montaigne
It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out

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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. Dreams

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