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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
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Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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