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He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake 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
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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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Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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