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Humanist, Schriftsteller, Philosoph, Politiker, Begründer der "Essayistik", "Theologia Naturalis" (Frankreich, 1533 - 1592).

Seigneur Michel Eyquem de Montaigne · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Seigneur Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wäre heute 490 Jahre, 3 Monate, 2 Tage oder 179.060 Tage alt.

Geboren am 28.02.1533 in Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne
Gestorben am 13.09.1592 in Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne
Sternzeichen: ♓ Fische

• If you have known how to compose your life, you have accomplished a great deal more than the man who knows how to compose a book. Have you been able to make your stride? You have done more than man who has taken cities and empires.

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• In farewells we heat above ordinary our affections to the things we forego.

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• In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.

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• It could be said of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other men's flowers, providing of my own only the string that ties them together.

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• It is an absolute perfection to know how to get the very most out of one's individuality.

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• It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

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• It is easier to write a mediocre poem than to undertand a good one.

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• It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

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• It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

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• It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

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• Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

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• Living is my job and my art.

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• Lying is a hateful and accursed vice. We have no other tie upon one another, but our word. If we did but discover the horror and consequences of it, we should pursue it with fire and sword, and more justly than other crimes.

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• Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

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• Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates gods by the dozen.

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• Man sees himself lodged here in the mud and filth of the world, nailed and fastened to the most lifeless and stagnant part of the universe, in the lowest story of the house, at the furthest distance from the vault of Heaven, with the vilest animals; and yet, in his imagination, he places himself above the circle of the moon, and brings Heaven under his feet.

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• 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 a covenant which hath nothing free but the entrance.

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• Marriage: May be compared to a cage: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out:

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• Maturity hath her defects, as well as greenness, or worse.

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