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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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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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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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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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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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