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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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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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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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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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.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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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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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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