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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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Habit is a second nature.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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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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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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