Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
French essayist and philosopher
Lived from: 1533 - 1592
Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
France
Born: 10 march 1533 Died: 13 september 1592
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Habit is second nature.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
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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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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
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But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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