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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Much
Honesty
Life
Grow
Grows
Success
Speak
Truth
Boldness
Littles
Fill
Little
Dare

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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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