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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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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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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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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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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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