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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel de Montaigne
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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
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Humor
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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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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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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God defend me from myself.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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