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One may be humble out of pride.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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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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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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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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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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