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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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Death pays all debts.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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