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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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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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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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