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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
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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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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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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.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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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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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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