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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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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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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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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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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 very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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