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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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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.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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