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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Respect
Greatest
Sufficiency
Thing
Belong
World
Psychology
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Oneself
Awareness
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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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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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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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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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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