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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
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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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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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