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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
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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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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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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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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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