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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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To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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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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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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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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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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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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