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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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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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