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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
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French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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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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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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We cannot fail in following nature.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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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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Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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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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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.
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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.
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