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My trade and art is to live.

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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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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 care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
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'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
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There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
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There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
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We do not correct the man we hang we correct others by him.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
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Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
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Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
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If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.
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