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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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
Proudest
Frail
Unhappy
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Men
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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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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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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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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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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