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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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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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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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