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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
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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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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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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