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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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