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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
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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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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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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