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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
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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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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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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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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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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