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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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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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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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