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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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I am myself the matter of my book.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Every movement reveals us.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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