French - Philosopher | February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592
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.
Michel de Montaigne
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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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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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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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