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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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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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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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And not to serve for a table-talk.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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