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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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
Translator
Writer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
Respect
Greatest
Sufficiency
Thing
Belong
World
Psychology
Esteem
Independence
Oneself
Awareness
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
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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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Habit is a second nature.
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Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
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Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]
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And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.
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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
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Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.
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To die is not to play a part in society it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends let us die and sulk among strangers.
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In my youth I studied for ostentation later, a little to gain wisdom now, for recreation never for gain.
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Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.
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Love to his soul gave eyes he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life the world around him is the dream.
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I do not teach. I relate.
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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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