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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
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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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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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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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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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