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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Never
Mistrust
Men
Speaks
Losing
Says
Speak
Without
Disfavor
Something
Commends
Always
Arouses
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification
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