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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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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long, and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
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