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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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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Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.
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