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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, 9 Monate, 6 Tage oder 179.248 Tage alt.

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

• There are few men who would dare publish to the world the prayers they make to almighty God.

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• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

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• There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method and discipline.

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• There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

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• There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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• There is no reply so sharp as silent contempt.

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• There is scarcely any less bother in the running of a family than in that of an entire state. And domestic business is no less importunate for being less important.

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• Those who have likened our life to a dream were more right, by chance, than they realised. We are awake while sleeping, and waking sleep.

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• Time is the sovereign physician of our passions.

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• To know how to live is my trade and my art.

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• To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

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• To philosophize is to doubt.

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• Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

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• Virtue shuns ease as a companion . . . It demands a rough and thorny path.

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• We call that against nature which cometh against custom. But there is nothing, whatsoever it be, that is not according to nature.

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• We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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• We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

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• We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

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• We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

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• We have need of very little learning to have a good mind.

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