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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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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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