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Biography - Michel de Montaigne:

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is a French Renaissance writer and philosopher.
Born: 1533 - Died: 1592
Period:
16th century
Place of birth: France
France

There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.


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Translation

(French, German)



French
Il y a certaines choses que l'on cache pour les montrer.

German
Gewisse Dinge versteckt man, um sie zu zeigen.




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Quotes for: thing


Quotes

Quotes about thing:


Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.





He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things.





Conformity of the intellect to the things.





It is valid to conclude from actuality to possibility, but not from possibility to actuality.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.





Things do not change we change.











Quotes for: to hide


Quotes

Quotes for: to hide


Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.





Hide your life and spread your spirit.





There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not.





Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.





All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;





Nature is wont to hide herself.











Quotes

Michel de Montaigne also said...


I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?





When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





My trade and art is to live.












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