I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice for it is myself that I portray.... I am myself the matter of my book.
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books they quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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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.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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