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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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