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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Honesty
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: Shut up, he said, so that they do not realize that you are here with me.
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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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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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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 value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.
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