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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
Poet Lawyer
Politician
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
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Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.
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The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.
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And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
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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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It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
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When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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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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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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A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
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