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Rejoice in the things that are present all else is beyond thee.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
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Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
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Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
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A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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One may be humble out of pride.
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