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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
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed when alone or in company morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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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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Habit is a second nature.
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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