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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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