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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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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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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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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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