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Every movement reveals us.
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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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
Michel de Montaigne
We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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