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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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