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Michel de Montaigne

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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.


— Michel de Montaigne


#greed #insight #understanding #insight

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.


— Michel de Montaigne


#inspirational #humor

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.


— Michel de Montaigne


#because #been #company #educated #i

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.


— Michel de Montaigne


#cat #know #knows #lifetimes #much

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.


— Michel de Montaigne


#honesty #honesty is #integrity #light #others

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.


— Michel de Montaigne


#grammar #humor #misunderstandings #problems #troubles

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.


— Michel de Montaigne


#business

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.


— Michel de Montaigne


#captivity #freedom #marriage #married-life #matrimony

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.


— Michel de Montaigne


#mind #nature

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.


— Michel de Montaigne


#because #friendship #good #good marriage #love






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Did you know about Michel de Montaigne?

The same rule applied to his mother father and servants who were obliged to use only Latin words he himself employed and thus acquired a knowledge of the very language his tutor taught him. That is what Montaigne did and that is why he is the hero of this book. His maternal grandfather Pedro Lopez from Zaragoza was from a wealthy Marrano (Sephardic Jewish) family who had converted to Catholicism.

He is most famously known for his skeptical remark 'Que sçay-je?' ('What do I know?' in Middle French; modern French Que sais-je?). Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (French: [miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ]; February 28 1533 – September 13 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and commonly thought of as the father of modern skepticism. Montaigne had a direct influence on writers the world over including René DescartesBlaise Pascal Jean-Jacques Rousseau William HazlittRalph Waldo Emerson Friedrich Nietzsche Stefan Zweig Eric HofferIsaac Asimov and possibly on the later works of William Shakespeare.

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