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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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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.
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Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
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It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
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One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
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I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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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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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
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Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of soul, impossible.
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In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota for my knowledge I cannot answer.
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What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.
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There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
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We have power over nothing except our will.
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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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