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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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