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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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Boast
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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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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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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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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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
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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