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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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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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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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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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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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