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We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
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A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
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The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
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Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.
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There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
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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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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
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The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
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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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To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.
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It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
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