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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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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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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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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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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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