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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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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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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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