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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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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No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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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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