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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
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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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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours for you can't spend it.
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
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In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
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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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A man may be humble through vainglory.
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.
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Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.
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Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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