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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.

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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
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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World
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Seem
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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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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Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
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It needs courage to be afraid.
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Let us a little permit nature to take her own way she better understands her own affairs than we.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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My art and profession is to live.
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I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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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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To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
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For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.
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No spiritual mind remains within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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