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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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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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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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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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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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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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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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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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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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