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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
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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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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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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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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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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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