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It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

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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
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
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It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
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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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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.
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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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It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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