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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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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Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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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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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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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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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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