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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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God defend me from myself.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
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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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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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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 is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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My trade and art is to live.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
Michel de Montaigne
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
Michel de Montaigne
The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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