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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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