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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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