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There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
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 not death, it is dying that alarms me.
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We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity we are not so wretched as we are base
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Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
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