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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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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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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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