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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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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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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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