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Michel de Montaigne

"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."

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"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

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"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject."
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"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."
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"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."
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"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."
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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
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"Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own."
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"We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany."
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