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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.
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