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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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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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We have power over nothing except our will.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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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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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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