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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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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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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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