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Quotations by author » Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
War
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Nature
Let us... permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Life is a dream; when we sleep we are awake, and when awake we sleep
Life
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Law and lawyersLibertyYouth
Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen
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Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.
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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens
Men
Many a man has been a wonder to the world, whose wife and valet have seen nothing in him that was even remarkable. Few men have been admired by their servants.
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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.
Marriage
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
Marriage
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand
Men
Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come - to them, their wives, their children, their friends - cathcing them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries what fury, what despair!
DeathDespair
Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself
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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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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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My trade and art is to live.
ArtLivingTrade
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