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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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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Nowhere
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Everywhere
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Soul
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If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
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