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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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