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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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
Jurist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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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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