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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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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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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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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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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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