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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
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Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
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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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We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
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