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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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