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It needs courage to be afraid.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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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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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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