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The continuous work of our life is to build death.
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
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If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.
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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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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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To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
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We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.
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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
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There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.
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He that is a friend to himself, know he is a friend to all.
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He loves little who loves by rule.
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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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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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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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