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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
Thinking
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Ashamed
Shame
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Think
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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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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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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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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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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Habit is a second nature.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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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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