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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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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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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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