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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
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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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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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