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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
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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