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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.
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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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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