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I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
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