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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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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.
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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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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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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