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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
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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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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me but I meane not they should cover or hide me.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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