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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
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