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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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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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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
Michel de Montaigne
When we have got it, we want something else.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
Michel de Montaigne
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
Michel de Montaigne
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
Michel de Montaigne
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
Michel de Montaigne
That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
Michel de Montaigne
