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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
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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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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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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