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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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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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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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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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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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