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Michel de Montaigne

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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

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


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



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.

German
Das Größte auf der Welt ist, zu wissen, dass man sich selbst gehört.




See also 

See also...



Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I accept the great adventure of being me.

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.




Quotes for: to be


Quotes

Quotes for "to be" or about being:


To be, or not to be, that is the question.





Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.





Become who you are!





I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.





I think, therefore I am.





Language is the house of the truth of Being.











Quotes for: oneself


Quotes

Quotes about oneself:


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.





If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.











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 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.





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





My trade and art is to live.












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