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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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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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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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We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
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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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I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
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We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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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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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
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Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.
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