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Michel de Montaigne

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French philosopher.
Born: 1533 - Died: 1592
Period:
16th century
Place of birth: France
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I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?"
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There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them."
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Few men have been admired by their own households."
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Philosophize is to learn how to die."
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge."
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
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My trade and art is to live."
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book."
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Who fears to suffer, already suffers what he fears."
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As one might say of me that I have only made here a collection of other people's flowers, having provided nothing of my own but the cord to bind them together."
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Virtue will not be followed but for herself; and, if we sometimes borrow her mask for some other occasion, she presently pulls it off again."
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