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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 worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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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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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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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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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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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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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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