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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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