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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

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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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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Bother
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Head
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.
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A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.
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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
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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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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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