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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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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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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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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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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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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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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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