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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Cowardice
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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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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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.
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We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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