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Michel de Montaigne
French
Philosopher
Born:
Feb 28
,
1533
Died:
Sep 13
,
1592
Good
Life
Man
Me
Myself
You
Related authors:
Albert Camus
Blaise Pascal
Henri Bergson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Montesquieu
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Simone Weil
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
Good
Marriage
Wife
Husband
Good Marriage
Would
Would-Be
Between
Blind
Deaf
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne
Memory
Wish
Nothing
Forget
Intensely
Thing
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne
Life
My Life
Has-Been
Misfortunes
Never
Most
Terrible
Been
Happened
Which
Full
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
Me
You
Valentines Day
Say
Press
I Can
More
He
Him
Because
Than
Loved
Why
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Michel de Montaigne
Life
You
Value Of Life
Will
Value
Find
Lies
Tale
Days
Make
Years
Depends
Whether
Length
Them
Use
Your
Satisfaction
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne
Marriage
Desperate
Birds
Those
Out
Inside
Sees
Outside
Cage
Like
Equally
Get
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
Noise
Argument
Weak
He
Command
His
Reason
Who
Shows
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom
Sign
Most
Cheerfulness
Certain
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
Michel de Montaigne
Man
Ignorance
Rest
Head
Pillow
His
Which
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne
Yourself
Others
Give
Lend
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
Michel de Montaigne
You
Nine
About
Cat
Lifetimes
Never
Know
Knows
Much
Your
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne
Fears
Shall
He
Who
Suffer
Suffers
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Michel de Montaigne
Else
Beyond
Thee
Things
Present
Rejoice
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne
Love
Friendship
Good
Marriage
Good Marriage
Rather
Because
Than
Such A Thing
Resembles
Thing
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de Montaigne
Conversation
Everybody
Boring
More
Than
Where
Agree
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
Education
Because
Educated
Been
Prefer
Reason
Company
Sufficiently
Peasants
Incorrectly
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel de Montaigne
Failure
Some
Triumphant
More
Than
Victories
Defeats
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Michel de Montaigne
Nothing
Firmly
Know
Least
Believed
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
Michel de Montaigne
Water
Matters
Bent
Oar
See
Merely
Looks
How
Straight
Them
Things
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom
Knowledge
Wise
Men
Other
We Cannot
Cannot
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
Michel de Montaigne
Man
Every
Bears
Condition
Human
Human Condition
Stamp
Whole
Every Man
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel de Montaigne
Me
Herself
More
Cat
She
Knows
Than
Whether
Who
Play
Her
Amusing
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne
Myself
Better
Others
Only
Order
Quote
Express
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.
Michel de Montaigne
Death
Nature
You
Will
Job
Worry
Adequately
Tell
About
Bother
Head
Perfectly
Know
She
Spot
How
Die
Your
Fully
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Michel de Montaigne
Death
Me
Dying
Alarm
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
Good
Intelligence
Others
Our
Polish
Brain
Against
Rub
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