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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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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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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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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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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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