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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my 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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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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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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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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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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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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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 is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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