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The thing I fear most is fear.
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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.
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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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My art and profession is to live.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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