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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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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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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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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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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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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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