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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
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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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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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