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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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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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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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