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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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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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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
Michel de Montaigne
The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
Michel de Montaigne
To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
Michel de Montaigne
The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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