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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
Michel de Montaigne
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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Self
Oneself
Freedom
True
Power
Everything
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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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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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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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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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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