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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
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
Honesty
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Right
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... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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