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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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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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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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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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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.
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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
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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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Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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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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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
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