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The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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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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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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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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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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