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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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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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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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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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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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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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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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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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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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