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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
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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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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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I am myself the matter of my book.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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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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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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