All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of oth… - Michel de Montaigne

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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, lord of the manor of Montaigne, Dordogne) (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay.

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Alternative Names: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne • Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha • Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha

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I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own.

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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own. - Michel de Montaigne

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