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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
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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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.
Michel de Montaigne
This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
Michel de Montaigne
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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