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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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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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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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