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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
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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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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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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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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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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