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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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