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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

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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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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
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I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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