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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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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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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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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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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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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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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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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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