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It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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
Alarms
Dying
Death
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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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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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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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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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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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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Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
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