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The most universal quality is diversity.
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
Diversity
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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God defend me from myself.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
Michel de Montaigne
Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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