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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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
Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Knowledge
Men
Boasting
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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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 pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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