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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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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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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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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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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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