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1533–1592 France
Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, lord of the manor of Montaigne, Dordogne) (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay.
France Essayists Mayors Philosophers Also known as: Michel E. de Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne, Michel Montaigne, Montaigne, Montaigne, Michel de
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Essais (1571)
Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.
Essais (1571)
It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Essais (1571)
Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
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Accustom him to every thing, that he may not be a Sir Paris, a carpet-knight, but a sinewy, hardy, and vigorous young man.
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Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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Every rich man is avaricious, in my opinion.
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I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
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All things, said an ancient saw, may be hoped for by a man as long as he lives.
He who has once been very foolish will at no other time be very wise.
Time is the sovereign physician of our passions.
I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in; but everyone publishes his acquisitions.
Non pudeat dicere, quod non pudet sentire: "Let no man be ashamed to speak what he is not ashamed to think."
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Apollo said that every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
Essais (1571)
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