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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
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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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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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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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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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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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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