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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.
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 pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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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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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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