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A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
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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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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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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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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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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Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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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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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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