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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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