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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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God defend me from myself.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books they presently fix me to them, and drive the other out of my thoughts, and do not mutiny to see that I have only recourse to them for want of other more, real, natural, and lively conveniences they always receive me with the same kindness.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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