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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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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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God defend me from myself.
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Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?
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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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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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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
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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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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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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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I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them we should accept them.
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It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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