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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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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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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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