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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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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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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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge of judgement and virtue, little news.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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