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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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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
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In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me he does me most good when he does himself good.
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We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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When we have got it, we want something else.
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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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The world always looks straights ahead as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward as for me, I roll about in myself.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.
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I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
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Time steals away without any inconvenience.
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A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul you must also toughen up his muscles.
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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