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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
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
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If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry I will find you another who will not agree with him.
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An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.
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Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are.
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God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.
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We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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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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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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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
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We are all of us richer than we think we are but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered as I would have done when he said, Somebody else's.
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The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
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