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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.
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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Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Tell
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Nature
Dying
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Head
Adequately
Dies
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Funny
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Death
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
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The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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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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A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
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How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable Hoc produced for the world!
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To smell, though well, is to stink.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
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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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