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We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Disbelieve
Condemn
Double
Cannot
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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