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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
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
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Fear
Reason
Thing
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Passion
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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My trade and art is to live.
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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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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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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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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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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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Every movement reveals us.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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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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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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