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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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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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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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