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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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
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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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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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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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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
Michel de Montaigne
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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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.
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