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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
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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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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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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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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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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God defend me from myself.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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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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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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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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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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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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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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