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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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We care more that people talk about us than how they talk about us.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Even if I could make myself fearsome, I would prefer to make myself kind.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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There is no present: what we call so is just the point of union between the future and the past.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Science is a scepter in certain hands, while in others it is only a plaything.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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There is nothing I fear more than fear itself.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Every honorable person would rather lose honor than lose conscience.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Beauty is a great recommendation in human commerce, and there is no one so barbarous or rude that does not feel hurt by its sweetness.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Of all the benefits that virtue brings us, one of the greatest is the contempt for death.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Whoever wished that man did not know pain, would at the same time avoid the knowledge of pleasure and reduce man himself to nothing.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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He who does not live in some way for others, also does not live for himself.

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

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The world belongs to those who are born to conquer it, not to those who dream they can conquer it.