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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
Death
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Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
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It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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I honor most those to whom I show least honor and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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