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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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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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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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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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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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Habit is a second nature.
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