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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
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The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
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The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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