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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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