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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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Saying is one thing and doing is another
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.
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A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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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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