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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The human face is a weak guarantee yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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