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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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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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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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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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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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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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Every movement reveals us.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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