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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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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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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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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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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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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