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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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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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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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