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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
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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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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
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Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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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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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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God defend me from myself.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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