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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

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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
Jurist
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Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.
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We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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