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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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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 have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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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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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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