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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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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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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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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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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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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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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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