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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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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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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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Every movement reveals us.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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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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