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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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