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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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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.
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One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
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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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