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What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?
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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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Whatever can be done another day can be done today.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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My art and profession is to live.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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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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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
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Habit is a second nature.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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