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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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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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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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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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