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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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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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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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