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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
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We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
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Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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