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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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