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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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
Melancholy
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Shadow
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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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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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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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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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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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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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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