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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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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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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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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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