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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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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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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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