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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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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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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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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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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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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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