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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
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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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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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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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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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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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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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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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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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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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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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