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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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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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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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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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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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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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