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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
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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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.
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The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
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It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
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Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
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My errors are by now natural and incorrigible but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
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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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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all they will chew our meat for us.
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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.
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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
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There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself
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Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?
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It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
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The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
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