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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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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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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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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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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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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