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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
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Humility
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May
Humble
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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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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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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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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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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