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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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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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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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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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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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