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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
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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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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