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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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