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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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Fortune does us neither good nor hurt she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
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All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
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It is no hard matter to get children but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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