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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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 no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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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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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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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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