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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Hope
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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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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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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