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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
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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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Death pays all debts.
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How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
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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.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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