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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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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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Death pays all debts.
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