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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
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There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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