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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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
Without
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Take
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Never
Trade
Memories
Lying
Upon
Reason
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
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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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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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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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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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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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