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It is a human tendency to measure truth and error by our capacity.
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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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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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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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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