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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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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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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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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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I am myself the matter of my book.
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