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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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