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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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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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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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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
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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.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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To understand via the heart is not to understand.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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