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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
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Death
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
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Others form man I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
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All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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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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We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
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I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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