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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
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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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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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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