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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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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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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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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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My trade and art is to live.
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