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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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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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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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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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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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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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