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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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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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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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