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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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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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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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