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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Every movement reveals us.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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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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