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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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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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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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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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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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My trade and art is to live.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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