Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. - Michel de Montaigne

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Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.

Michel de Montaigne

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About Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem, lord of the manor of Montaigne, Dordogne) (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay.

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Alternative Names: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne • Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha • Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha

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To censure my own faults in some other person seems to me no more incongruous than to censure, as I often do, another's in myself. They must be denounced everywhere, and be allowed no place of sanctuary.

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

Kings and philosophers shit — and so do ladies.

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