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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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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.
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