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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
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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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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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Habit is a second nature.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it he sees knowledge and does not use it.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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