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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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
Hope
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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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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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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