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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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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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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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