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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
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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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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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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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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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Death pays all debts.
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Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
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It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
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