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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
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French Moralist
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Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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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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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
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I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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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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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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