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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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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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