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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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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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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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Every movement reveals us.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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