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One of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written.
Here are some famous quotes by Michel de Montaigne.
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Philosophy is doubt.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Custom is second nature and no less powerful.
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The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
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Not being able to govern events I govern myself.
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I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.
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The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
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Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.
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The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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I quote others in order to better express my own self.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.
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Marriage a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
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No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
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All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
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The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.
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To make a crooked stick straight we bend it the contrary way.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
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Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.
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He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered 'Somebody else's.'
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There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
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Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
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If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was he and I was I.
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It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake and waking sleep.
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If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
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I speak the truth not so much as I would but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.
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We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.
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When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
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The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene.
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The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.
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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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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.
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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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The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'