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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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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