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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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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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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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