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1533–1592 France
Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, lord of the manor of Montaigne, Dordogne) (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay.
France Essayists Mayors Philosophers Also known as: Michel E. de Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne, Michel Montaigne, Montaigne, Montaigne, Michel de
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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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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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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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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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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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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