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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Nothing
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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 movement reveals us.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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