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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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