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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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