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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
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Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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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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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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