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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Ashamed
Shame
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
Michel de Montaigne
I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
Michel de Montaigne
He loves little who loves by rule.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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God defend me from myself.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
Michel de Montaigne
I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
Michel de Montaigne
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
Michel de Montaigne
The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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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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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
Michel de Montaigne
Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
Michel de Montaigne
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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