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Michel de Montaigne
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
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Michel de Montaigne
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Michel de Montaigne
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Michel de Montaigne
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
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Michel de Montaigne
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 no bring forth in the agitation.
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