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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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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Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Inanity
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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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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Knowledge is an excellent drug but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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