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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
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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