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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they artialize nature.
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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
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To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.
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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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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
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