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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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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.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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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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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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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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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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