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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
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In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
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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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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
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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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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.
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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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The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.
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There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
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