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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
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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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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
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The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
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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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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
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One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.
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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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Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover he only beats the water for another's net.
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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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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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Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
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