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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
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French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
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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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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
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Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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Every man has within himself the entire human condition
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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