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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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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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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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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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