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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 492 Jahre, 1 Monat, 6 Tage oder 179.734 Tage alt.

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

• Memory presents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

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• Men are nothing until they are excited.

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• Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

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• My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute - shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself - to court himself and hide away.

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• No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

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• No wind favors him who has no destined port.

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• Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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• Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

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• Of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

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• On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rumps.

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• One may be humble out of pride.

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• One should always have one's boots on, and be ready to leave.

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• Our religion is made so as to wipe out vices; it covers them up, nourishes them, incites them.

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• Philosophizing means learning how to die.

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• Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

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• Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

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• Presumption is our natural and original malady. When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me.

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• Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

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• Saying is one thing and doing is another.

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• Science without conscience is but the death of the soul.

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