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> [“I would rather be an authority on myself than on Cicero.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne-1533-1592/i-would-rather-be-an-authority-on-myself-than-on-cicero/)

Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592

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## Other authors on Cicero

## More by Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592

> [“Life in itself is neither good or evil. It is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne-1533-1592/life-in-itself-is-neither-good-or-evil-it-is-the-place-of-good-and/)

Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592

> [“I would rather be an authority on myself than on Cicero.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne-1533-1592/i-would-rather-be-an-authority-on-myself-than-on-cicero/)

Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592

> [“We should be simiarly wary of acceping common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne-1533-1592/we-should-be-simiarly-wary-of-acceping-common-opinions-we-should/)

Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592

> [“Sorry the man, to my mind, who has not in his own home a place to be all by himself, to pay his court…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne-1533-1592/sorry-the-man-to-my-mind-who-has-not-in-his-own-home-a-place-to-be/)

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592

> [“In the year of Christ 1571, at the age of thirty-eight, on the last day of February, anniversary of his birth, Michel de Montaigne,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-montaigne-1533-1592/in-the-year-of-christ-1571-at-the-age-of-thirty-eight-on-the-last-day/)

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592

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