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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
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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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If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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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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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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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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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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