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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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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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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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We are born to inquire after truth it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.
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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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