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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Individuality
Absolutes
Absolute
Perfection
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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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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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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