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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Every movement reveals us.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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My art and profession is to live.
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
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Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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