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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
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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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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.
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Habit is a second nature.
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My art and profession is to live.
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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.
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It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
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Men are nothing until they are excited.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
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A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
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Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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