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We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
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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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?
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My trade and art is to live.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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The most universal quality is diversity.
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
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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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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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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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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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Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself if he belittles himself, he is believed if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
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In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.
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