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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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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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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
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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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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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