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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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