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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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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There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
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The thing I fear most is fear.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Every movement reveals us.
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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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I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
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The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.
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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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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
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We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.
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In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.
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