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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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
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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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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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We have power over nothing except our will.
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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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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
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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.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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