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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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