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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Vainglory
Humble
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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I am myself the matter of my book.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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A learned man is not learned in all things but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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