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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
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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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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations but there is art required to sort and understand them.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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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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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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