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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Carcass
Vanity
Shadow
Word
Nothing
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World
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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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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss his accusations of himself are always believed his praises never.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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