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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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