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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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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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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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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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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?
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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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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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