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Biography : Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is a French Renaissance writer and philosopher.
Born: 1533 - Died: 1592
Period:
16th century
Place of birth: France
France

Michel de Montaigne - Quotes

Of the experience I have of myself, I find enough to make me wise, if I were but a good scholar.
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As one might say of me that I have only made here a collection of other people's flowers, having provided nothing of my own but the cord to bind them together.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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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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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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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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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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fear

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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truth

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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death

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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future

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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love

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
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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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